Make Your Camera Wireless

Though there are WiFi cameras, you can turn any camera that uses SD cards into a WiFi camera with Eye-Fi. This 2 Gig SD cards sells for $99 and has WiFi built in. Every time you take an image your card sends it to your computer. It can even work from other WiFi base stations like Panera, as well as import to many online photo services.

Here are some findings:

• Eye-Fi's compatible camera chart is not even close to complete. Just buy the card at a store like Best Buy that will allow you to bring it back without charging you a restocking fee.
• The Reader that comes with it doesn't fit into the Air's USB socket. You'll need a USB extension or another card reader that fits. You only need USB for initialization of the process the first time, so you can borrow one.
• Choose a folder as a destination as opposed to iPhoto. I had some issues with connecting it to iPhoto '08, but many say that it's annoying to use it directly with iPhoto since each image creates it's own event.
• Make sure you have WPA/WPA2 security set on your Time Capsule or Airport Express. There are issues with WEP.
• Set Auto-Off on your camera to the longest time possible or at least 5 minutes or so. Otherwise it can cut out in the middle of downloads.
• At the moment the big drawback is that Eye-Fi doesn't do video. It might be because of camera auto-shutoff times or issues with the card not being available for downloading a long video and shooting at the same time, but it sure would be nice to have some provision for those who shoot a lot of video with their still camera.